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Quotes by Historian
"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."
51
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."
51
"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
50
"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
50
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
50
"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
50
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
49
"The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection."
49
"Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order."
49
"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
49
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
48
"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."
48
"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."
48
"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities."
48
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
48
"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
48
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
48
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
48
"That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise."
48
"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier."
48
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
47
"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
47
"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
47
"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
47
"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
47
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